A weblog on mainly militairy models in mainly 1/72. Expect a lot of posts on tank & figure models from Revell, Italeri and Armourfast.

Tuesday, 1 January 2013

2013 (Revell) Releases

Happy new year everyone!

Let's hope 2013 will be a prosperous year in many ways.

When it comes to modelling I hope you will all have a productive year with satisfying results.

Revell announced what they will release until the end of this year and there are some brand new items of interest:

The Strv. 122A/B (Kit No. 03199), the Swedish version of the leopard II which was announced earlier this year. Expected to be available end February.

Sd.Kfz. 7/1 with a Flak vierling, armoured cab and ammunitions trailer (Kit No. 03195). Expected to be available end of May.

Sd.Kfz.251/16 (kit No. 03197). Expected to be available end of July.

T-90 (Kit No. 03190) The latest Russian MBT with parts for a Russian and Indian version. Expected to be available at the end of September.

These are all interesting releases. All of these will retail for €12,00 and (except the Sd. Kfz. 251/16) have never been available from a large manufacturer in 1/72 before. The Sd.Kfz. 7 'cargo version' (kit No. 03186) Revell released last year was disappointing according to some. For the 7/1 version the upper half of the vehicle is almost 100% new so it is interesting to see how it will turn out. Either way with 4 new releases in 1/72 and 3 of them never available before in 1/72 this promises to be an interesting year. Added to that there are other manufacturers who will no doubtly also have interesting releases. (in the last 2 weeks of 2012 Zvezda released a 1/72 Panther Ausf. D which looks very promising for example)

Revell will also release a number of previously tooled models which where out of production several years: